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have partly been brought up by a fault ranging along the south siele 
of the Skibeden Yalley ; 1 but on the north they dip regularly under 
the Yoredale and Millstone-grit beds. On that side, where the series 
is nmch clearer than on the south, there are two limestones above 
the Mountain Limestone. On the south side of the Skibeden Yalley 
and anticlinal the Kinder Scout grit strikes E. and W. along Skipton 
and Draughton Moors, and descends to the river Wharfe north of 
Addingham. Its high southerly dip carries it up the slope of 
Langbar Moor, it base running just below Beamsley Beacon ; it 
then, under the influence of a branch of the Skipton anticlinal, 
plunges down northward to Kex Beck, where the beds bend up 
again and rise northward to Hazlewood Moor and Bolton Park ; 
here, on the strike of the Skipton anticlinal, the beds bend over 
northward and recross the Wharfe below Laund House ; south of 
this, as far as Bolton Abbey, limestones and shales of the Yoredale 
series are seen along the river. These are cut off opposite Bolton 
Abbey by a N.E. fault bringing in the upper beds. The so-called 
Yoredale grits run along the slopes of Skipton Moor to Fairfield 
Hall ; and east of the Wharfe are found about Beamsley and 
Storriths. They have not been everywhere identified on the north 
side of the Skibeden Yalley. On the west side, though the beds are 
in several places broken by N.W. faults, yet their general run is 
tolerably plain. A set of bold crags marks the escarpment of the 
Kinder Scout . grit along Haiton and Embsay Moors, ßylstone, 
ßurnsall, and Thorp Fells. Beneath the Western escarpment of the 
Kinder Scout grit, the Yoredale grit is found forming at intervals 
promontories on the sides of the felis, probably caused by a local 
hardening of the rock, which appears to be of a very variable 
character. It bas not been traced further east than the northern 
extremity of Burnsall Fell. The Kinder Scout grit, whose escarp- 
ment has been briefly indicated above, lies in the shape of a syn- 
clinal trongh dipping east, and thus occupies with its various mem- 
bers the whole extent of Burnsall Fell, Barden, and Embsay Moors. 
The rock is well seen along the river Wharfe, particularly at the 
celebrated ‘ Strid’ in Bolton Woods. On the east of the Wharfe these 
grits rise up in a sort of broken dome with a quaquaversal dip to 
form the summit of Barden Fell, well marked by the bold crags of 
Simon Seat, whence a magnificent view is to be had, and York 
Minster may be seen on a clear day. Near these crags, at the very 
summit of the feil, 1700 feet above the sea, some pot-holes (one of 
which, in the dialect of the country, is, from its great size, called the 
Great Shak) indicate the presence of limestone at no great distance. 
The beds may be seen in Howgill and on the path through Fell 
Plantation, dipping steeplv to the N.W. into the valley ; but along 
the Skyreholme beck they turn up again, and dip steeply to the S.E. 
From Appletreewick the grits are seen striking north-eastward, 
underlain by a mass of shale, from beneath which massive white 
scar limestone rises regularly with a similar strike, as far as a set of 
1 I now consider it doubtful whether tliere is not also a fault along the north side 
of Skibeden. 
